If you've grown up with the typical southern tomato-based BBQ sauce recipe, you might be looking for a new kind of sauce experience. Our Carolina Gold Sauce combines simple ingredients to make a high quality dipping, or basting sauce, with a little bit of heat and a punch of flavor.

Carolina Gold Mustard Barbecue Sauce in Black Pan with Wooden Spoon — Authentic South Carolina Mustard Sauce... Carolina Gold

After your first taste of South Carolina Gold BBQ Sauce, it is sure to become your favorite primary ingredient for any of your barbecue recipes.

The Origins of the Best Carolina BBQ Sauce

Your soon-to-be-favorite Carolina gold barbecue sauce recipe was brought to South Carolina by German immigrants who settled in America.

This tasty sauce traded the traditional tomato paste or ketchup-based sauce for a mustard base, which is the primary condiment in German cuisine. As a result, this easy recipe quickly became a local-favorite way of making a unique sauce. Today, you can find Carolina Mustard Barbecue Sauce in many BBQ restaurants or BBQ joints that are in the know.

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However, our goal is to get you making your own sauce that can rival any other Carolina Gold BBQ Sauce recipe. To tell the truth, this is going to quickly become one of your favorite things! Let's get started on this delicious sauce recipe.

How To Make Carolina Gold Barbecue Sauce

The method couldn't be easier and only takes a few minutes to come together. Gather all of the barbecue sauce ingredients.

Place everything into a medium saucepan and whisk all the ingredients together over medium heat. It comes together very quickly, 3-4 minutes max. Taste for seasoning. Enjoy!

What meat does Carolina Gold Sauce go on?

This sweet and tangy barbecue sauce is reminiscent of honey mustard, so it goes well with chicken and pork dishes, as well as turkey, smoked sausage, and barbecue sandwiches. While it wouldn't traditionally be paired with beef brisket, it certainly wouldn't clash in flavor.

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Best Carolina Gold Sauce Recipe

A welcome change from the traditional tomato-based BBQ sauce, our Carolina Gold Sauce is sure to become your new go-to BBQ sauce. This mustard-based delicious sauce recipe is perfect for adding a slight sweetness to your favorite pulled pork or pork chop recipes!

Course Condiment

Cuisine Barbecue

Keyword barbecue, bbq, carolina gold sauce recipe, grilling, smoking

Cook Time 3

Total Time 3

Servings cups

Calories 66kcal

Author Sarah Penrod

Ingredients

1 ½ c. classic yellow mustard sauce
¼ c. apple cider vinegar
1 T. tomato paste
½ c. cane sugar
¼ c. honey
1 t. Worcestershire sauce
½ t. Tabasco pepper sauce
½ t. dry mustard powder
1 t. onion powder
1 t. garlic powder
½ t. black pepper
¼ t. salt

Instructions

Place everything into a medium saucepan and whisk all the ingredients
together over medium heat. (It comes together very quickly, 3-4 minutes
max)
Taste for seasoning.

Video

Notes

To kick this up a little bit, try adding in ½ container of Pharaoh’s gold luster dust available on Amazon. If using, simply whisk in luster dust with other ingredients to prepare 14k sauce! Pour this sauce over chicken wings, and you've got yourself 14k gold chicken wings!